Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 1992, 4:44 PM MDT for Chase County, Perkins County, Nebraska. It was in force for 31 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 29, 1992, 4:44 PM MDT (22:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 1992, 5:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Chase County, NE, Perkins County, NE
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 29, 5:18 PM MDT | Hail 1.75 | Chase, NE |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 103 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 426 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -173 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1696 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 29, 11:07 AM MDT, 5 hours 37 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Jul 29, 2:35 PM MDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before
NEZ006-012-016-017-292130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 335 PM CDT WED JUL 29 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT OR 9 PM CDT FOR GRANT..ARTHUR AND KEITH COUNTIES IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA... AT 332 PM CDT...A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS WAS LOCATED 10 MILES NORTH OF THEDFORD OR 65 MILES NORTH OF NORTH PLATTE. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST BSOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING IN THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE AND WILL LIKELY MOVE INTO ARTHUR AND KEITH COUNTIES AROUND 530 PM CDT. ABBAS
Special weather statement, Jul 29, 3:15 PM MDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before
NEZ006-012-292215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 413 PM CDT WED JUL 29 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT OR 9 PM CDT FOR GRANT..ARTHUR AND KEITH COUNTIES IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA... AT 410 PM CDT...WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF STAPLETON OR 40 MILES NORTHEAST OF NORTH PLATTE. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE A BRIEF PERIOD OF HEAVY RAIN. SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE. A FEW OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO KEITH AND ARTHUR COuUNTIES AROUND 5 PM CDT. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. ABBAS
Special weather statement, Jul 29, 4:10 PM MDT, 34 minutes before
NEZ006-012-292300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 410 PM MDT WED JUL 29 1992 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA FROM THE PANHANDLE AND NORTHEAST COLORADO... AT 405 PM MDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES WEST OF GRANT OR 65 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL PRODUCE A BRIEF PERIOD OF VERY HEAVY RAIN. SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS PART OF A LARGER AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED FROM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ARTHUR TO NEAR VENANGO. ARTHUR AND VENANGO ARE LOCATED 55 MILES WEST NORTHWEST AND 65 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. ABBAS
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 6:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur | 26 min |
| Jul 28, 8:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 27 min |
| Jul 28, 8:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 29 min |
| Jul 29, 5:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase, Hayes | 31 min |
| Jul 29, 5:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Grant | 36 min |
| Jul 29, 5:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hayes, Hitchcock | 29 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.